Category: News

On the night of January 22 at Walhalla High, the focus will be on the first year of high school. The annual Freshmen Focus Parent Night for rising 9th graders will take place at 6 o’clock, featuring a meal in the cafeteria. Rising freshmen and their parents have the chance to meet administrators, faculty class sponsors and advisors to learn […]

From a budget that exceeded $100 million, Oconee public schools spent nearly $61 million on instruction. A breakdown of expenditures from the school district’s FY 2012 audit report shows 54% was spent on face-to-face teaching, which covers the costs of teachers, substitutes, and instructional assistants. During the school year that ended last June, the district spent $2.9 million on classroom […]

The S.C. State Law Enforcement Division is scheduled for an on-site assessment of a program to achieve accreditation by verifying it meets professional standards. Administered by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), the accreditation program requires agencies to comply with state-of-the-art standards in four basic areas: policy and procedures, administration, operations, and support services. As a […]

Westminster utility crews are working to repair a washout that has created sinkhole conditions along Windsor Street. City Administrator David Smith says a two-to-three foot section of the asphalt street in front of Oconee Implements gave way to the pressure from below. So far, crews have traced a water leak that is channeling along a sewer line which, according to […]

The new Walhalla High School on highway 11, scheduled for a 2015 opening, will add 2,400 gallons of wastewater a day to be processed by the county’s Coneross Wastewater Treatment Plant in Seneca. The flow is to be metered by the city of Walhalla. Bob Winchester, executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority, announced the projection during last night’s […]

At the request of the city administrator, the Seneca mayor will pick up the phone this morning and formally request that the member-customers of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority grant the city additional seats at the JRSA commission board. And once Mayor Dan Alexander makes the request, the matter is to be added to the agenda for next week’s annual […]

A Walhalla representative will chair the Joint Regional Sewer Authority. And a Seneca man will be number two in the pecking order. Scott Parris, Walhalla utilities director, moved from interim chairman to chairman. Parris was elected without opposition to succeed Westminster’s Howard Adams, who recently resigned. Westminster’s Rhett Smith, who nominated Parris, said it’s only proper that Parris, who had […]

The police in Walhalla say they have taken down a meth laboratory at a home near the former Avondale Manufacturing Plant. Acting on a complaint, the police arrived late Friday afternoon at a home at 2 Keowee Street, arrested four residents, and confiscated what Chief Ronald Wilbanks described as bottles and other materials used in the meth-making process. Arrest reports […]

After accepting a church position in Anderson, former Congressman Gresham Barrett and his wife, Natalie, have their home and farm near Westminster for sale and are looking for property in Anderson County, 96.3/WGOG NEWS has learned. Barrett recently accepted a position as Director of Stewardship for New Spring Church and is said to be completely at peace with his decision […]

Walhalla has added a new truck to its arsenal of fire fighting equipment. That new truck, purchased by city, arrived last Thursday at the department on E. N. Broad Street. It replaces an older truck, which was donated the next day to Oconee Emergency Services, for use by the county at the discretion of OES.